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Science 14 October 1966:
Vol. 154. no. 3746, pp. 265 - 266
DOI: 10.1126/science.154.3746.265
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Continental Margin of Western Europe: Slope Progradation and Erosion

J. R. Curray 1, D. G. Moore 1, R. H. Belderson 2, and A. H. Stride 2

1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, and U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, California
2 National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, England

Reflection profiling of the continental margin off western Europe shows seaward-dipping continental-slope deposits that have been dissected by submarine canyons west of the English Channel. These records refute previous interpretation of structural benches of older, nearly horizontal strata outcropping on the slope face.

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